Browse by category
A Crack in the Edge of the World - America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous sub ...Show more
A Crack in the Edge of the World : The Great American Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Category: History
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into gre ...Show more
A Crack in the Edge of the World - The great American earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Category: History
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous sub ...Show more
ALICE BEHIND WONDERLAND by WINCHESTER SIMON
Category: Photography
On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. Simon Winchester de ...Show more
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
Category: History
The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester
Atlantic - A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
Category: History
The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved i ...Show more
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
Category: History
The epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean from the bestselling author, Simon Winchester. In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life story of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future. A ...Show more
Bomb, Book and Compass - Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China by Simon Winchester
Category: Science & Natural History
Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist performing research at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist and an ardent member of the local Communist party. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the t ...Show more
Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China by Simon Winchester
Category: History
Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the two greatest love affairs of his life - Miss Lu, and China. Miss Lu ins ...Show more
Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China by Simon Winchester
Category: Biography
The seventeenth-century philosopher-statesman Francis Bacon famously declared that nothing had changed the world more profoundly than three great inventions: gunpowder, printing and the compass. What he didn't know was that the Chinese had been successfully using all three, long before the west ever 'in ...Show more
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more